Quoted in today's
NY Daily News , former Pres. Bill Clinton was quoted as telling CNN ["Bill: Trent tipped party hand",by Dave Goldiner] as follows:
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"How do you think they [the Republicans] got a majority in the South anyway? ...I think what they are really upset about is that he[ Sen. Lott] made public their strategy"--BILL CLINTON
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"{[Lott] just embarressed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day"--BILL CLINTON
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The
Daily News article went on to say" Clinton accused Republicans of regularly using coded racial appeals to gain support among whites..."
I checked the CNN website but couldn't find any such reference to these alleged remarks. Perhaps someone else can have more luck, or it was quoted by CNN somewhere else.
Anyhow, sounds almost like a Presidential candidate to da DooG; and given the wide support he enjoys in the African-American community( with an Office in Harlem) and Gore's officially (whatever that is) "dropping-out" of the race to be Democratic candididate in 2004, Clinton might just surface as a Candidate again.
While it has never been done that a two-term President post-FDR ran for more than two terms, the Constitutional Amemndment that blocks three terms may only apply to three
consecutive terms.
This question of President Clinton X 3 with an intervening term has been in the news media well before the Trent Lott situation.
The consensus has leaned toward that it can be done.
Any Constitutional scholars out there ?
Anyhow, with a recession in progress and no popular Democrat on the horizon--who knows?
MegalosSkylaki
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